San Francisco Giants owner Bob Lurie, rebuffed for the fourth time at the ballot box, said he won't risk a fifth rejection by again asking San Francisco Bay area voters to build a new stadium.
Lurie, in a letter to San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, said Monday he must now think about moving the club out of the San Francisco Bay area.Lurie insists the team will not play at cold and windy Candlestick Park after the 1994 season. But voters had rejected plans for a new, publicly funded stadium twice in San Francisco and once in Santa Clara County before last week's vote in San Jose.
In his letter to Jordan, an exasperated Lurie noted that those failed efforts had cost the team "considerable expense" of both time and money.
"Furthermore, the Giants will not, under any circumstances, get involved in any further ballot measures of any kind, including initiatives on this matter," he said.